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“Claudia has won this extraordinary painting tonight that is worth one million [euros] and so is a millionaire,” organiser Peri Cochin announced after Borgogno’s name and winning ticket number were displayed on a screen.
The 51,140 tickets sold online for €100 each. Proceeds are going to provide water for villagers in Madagascar and Cameroon.
The draw was originally scheduled for March but was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic.
The small still life, which is signed “Picasso”, shows a newspaper and a glass of absinthe on a wood table. Picasso painted it in 1921.
Tickets were bought in more than 100 countries, with the bulk sold in France, the United States, Switzerland and Italy.
The winner of a similar raffle in 2013 was a 25-year-old fire sprinkler worker from Pennsylvania.
